Thomas andkews



No.-6l6,444. Patented Dec. 27,1898.

T. ANDREWS. TOILET AND WASH STAND.

(Application filed Apr. 33. 1898.)

(No Model.)

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NlTED STATES THOMAS ANDREXVS, OF HAMILTON, CANADA.

TOILET AND WASH STAND.

SFECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 616,444, dated December 2? 1898.

Application filed April 23, 1898. Serial No. 678,620. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS ANDREWS, a citizen of Canada, residing at Hamilton, in the county of \Ventworth, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Toilet and Vash Stand, (for which I have obtained a patent in Canada, No. 59,551, bearing date April 6, 1898,) of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention is more fully disclosed in the following specification and in the drawings annexed thereto, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of this invention as it appears when in position against a wall, the washstand being lowered to position and also the adjustable writing-desk is lowered to position immediately over the washbowl. Fig. .3 is a sectional side elevation of the same in closed position.

In order to fully ascertain the nature and object of this invention, it will be in order to designate the component parts which go to make up this toilet and wash stand. v

The framework consists of the two sides A, the backboard B, the upper shelves 0, and the lower side cross stay-piece D, all of which should be substantially constructed and of the best furniture material.

The upper and the-lower ends of the backboard B are intended to be of a chaste and becoming design suitable to the size of the frame, which is intended to be, say, five inches pro- ,iection from the wall, fifteen inches wide, and about three feet six inches long or high, more or less, as the case may be, each dimension being proportionate. The upper part of this frame is provided with a side hinged door E, hinged at 3 and having a suitable glass-plate mirror 2. This door completely covers the fronts of the four or series of shelves 0.

An adjustable washbowl support H is hinged or pivoted at at to the outer and lower part of the sides of the frame and has a washbowl F in the central part thereof and is suspended in right-angled position to the wall by means of cords or chains 6, which are attached to the inner sides of the frame at 5 and to the washbowl-support 7 or other convenient places. This support II has side flanges 8, which are hinged or pivoted at A to the outer sides of the frame A.

J is a towel rack or roller in brackets 10 on the outer side of the bowl-support, and when supplied with a towel and when in closed position the towel falls over the washbowl and completely hides the same from view.

It will be observed that the central part of the sides A or the part that the outer end of the bowl-support H falls against is gained in, as at 12, in order that the bowl-support may lean inward toward the back of the frame in order to remain in slightly-inclined position that is, off the vertical line. This inclined position prevents the possibility of the washbowl-support falling, as would be the case were the same in vertical position.

The plane or writing-desk M is pivoted in the vertical slot 14 in side pieces 10, said pieces being secured to the inner sides of each side piece A of frame. The outer end of this desk leans against the back of the frame, as inFig. 2, and when in position for use it is brought down, as in Fig. 1. The outer part rests upon the bowlsupport between its side flanges S. The inner pivoted end of this desk M may rest in the lower ends of the vertical slot 14:. The desk would then be about level, or the inner pivoted end may rest in the part of the slot which extends at an acute angle to the rest of the slot, as shown in present position in Fig. 1 on an incline for writing purposes. At the lower part of the frame a towel'receptacle T is provided, the bottomU of which is on an incline to afford sufficient depth to contain six soiled towels. The entrance to this receptacle is an opening S through the lower side cross staypiece D.

It will at once be perceptible how adapted this article will be for offices, bed-rooms, bathrooms, barber-shops, and other places of va- 'rious kinds.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of this invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence I do not consider myself limited to the precise construction herein defined, but believe that I am entitled to all such variations as come within the terms of my claim.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A toilet and wash stand of the character described, oonsisting of a framework capable of being secured to a wall in vertical position,

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shelves in the upper part thereof, a hinged above said washbowl, the outer end of the door having a mirror covering said shelves, desk capable of resting upon said washbowla washbowl-snpport hinged to the lower part support at suitable adjustment thereto, and

of the sides of the frame, and suspended when capable of placement in closed position in the I 5 5 in use by side chains and supplied with a frame, as described.

towel-rack, as described, and capable of clos- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my ing to said sidesininclined position, the frame hand in presence of two witnesses. being provided with vertical slots the upper THOMAS ANDREWS. part of said slots extending at an acute angle Witnesses: I

10 to the vertical part of the slots, a desk hav- JOHN H. HENDRY,

ing its inner end pivoted in said slots, and B. E. HERALD. 

